The Retreat is a Grade II listed building in the Broadland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 June 1984. House. 1 related planning application.
The Retreat
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Broadland
- Constituency
- Broadland and Fakenham MP: Jerome Mayhew (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 June 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Retreat, 38 and 40, Hungate Street, Aylsham, NR11 6AA
- OS grid reference
- TG 192 267
- Coordinates
- 52.79404, 1.2499
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Retreat is a house situated on Hungate Street, Aylsham. It has a 17th-century core, which was later refronted in the early 20th century. The exterior is brick, with colourwashed plaster, and has a steep-pitched thatched roof, hipped at the north end. A central chimney stack rises from the roof. The house is two storeys in height, and has casement windows, with some later sash windows.
Local climate
The Retreat receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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